LIVE 47.5 - Three Red Lightyears Later

Silent Cypher joins Steve519 to host
LIVE on LIVE The Gamers Roundtable™

Topics include…
Add another year to the warrenty! That’s one per red light.
E3: What announcements are you expecting?
What innovations are we looking for to keep the FPS genre fresh?
Multiplayer vs. Singleplayer: Is there a double standard?
Spin-off Topics include: Zune, GRAW, XBLA, Retro gaming and the new Board Games (Catan and Carcassonne).
So you played The Darkness… now what?
YAY or NAY™: Madden, NCAA and All-Pro 2k8.

Brief Show Wrap-Up with Rusty Ranchero…
LIVE.5 is great because YOU are on the show.
Rusty’s thoughts about several of the topics.
Catch 48.0 next Tuesday, it’ll be great because Carpal won’t be there!
And-Now-For Outtakes™ and more…

LIVE on LIVE™ guests (regular gamers, just like you) are
conartistic, oNs JUGGERNAUT, dieyouwill and NC Comic Relief.

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It’s gonna be a long night.

I Hate This… (The Wii Song)

Hey guys, remember those awesome songs that we had on our podcast last week? Those parody’s from the guys at Sarcastic Gamer? Well guess what? They just came out with a new some and this time they bring there comedic style to the Nintendo Wii. I just finished listening to this song and it was so funny, but at the same time so true. So do yourself a favor and check it out, here is the page link for it, or you can just download it by clicking here. But be sure and leave them some feedback for there awesome work.

Forza Motorsport 2 Vs. DiRT Part 1

With the recent release of two big racing games, here is an in depth look on which game is a green light to buy. In this two part article, we’ll examine these racers in three categories: single player, multiplayer and extra features. So strap on your seatbelt and let’s take a ride through the 360’s latest top racers.

Forza Motorsport 2 is a simulation racing game offering extremely accurate physics with extensive upgrading and tuning. In this simulation racing game, you are allowed to visually upgrade your car with body kits, an extensive unique vinyl system and performance upgrades. In FM2, developed by Turn 10 Studios, performance upgrades are stepped up from the first game allowing you to change surpassing details of the ride, including the drive train. You can modify your car by changing every little detail, like down force, camber angle, tire pressure and of course fine tuning the engine like a real street mechanic.

Since Forza is a sim racer its damage modeling is extensive, but more in the performance area then visual. Most people, including myself, are disappointed in the visual damage which has set levels of damage offering much less then advertised. On the other hand you can completely ruin your car, performance wise, breaking or damaging each part. The Physics seem to be worse than the original over-stressing the effect of driving off road and sometimes seeming to extreme or almost random. The lack of a cockpit cam is rather disappointing but perhaps understandable considering the 200 or so cars in the game.

DiRT is more of a arcade racer and has some of the best graphics I’ve ever seen on the 360 and more forgiving performance damage but better visual damage where every crack and bump affects you. This game is a much different than the previous Colin McRae game that is much more arcade like and lacks some of the things most rally games have including weather effects which is surprising, and while it has hill climbs there are no descents which would easily have been added in by reversing the climbs. DiRT offers more camera angles giving you two cockpit cameras with one allowing you to looks all around the inside which sadly is the only cam you can do that with. I had though a completely controllable camera where you can rotate 360 degrees around the car was a standard feature but apparently Codemasters doesn’t think so. I don’t know the exact number of cars in the game but its around 50 with various types of cars. There are normal rally cars, CORR Buggies, Rally raid T1 and T4 cars which are huge trucks and SUV’s. Read the rest of this entry »

Nice to work with ya…

Recently we started up a partnership with 360Friendspot and the LiveEye service. If you listen to our .0 shows you may recognize the segment called the 360 FriendSpot “Spot”. Brought to us each .o show by Squidpunch. However there is another community member that helps make it all possible: ZaaM IT.

This week ZaaM IT was featured on Xbox Live’s Member Profile. You can read the article here. Check out the interview and give him props on his site. Let him know you appreciate all his hard work.

I am gald that XBL Radio is fortunate enough to attract such Gamer Personas. It is gamers like ZaaM It and all of you here at XBL Radio that make the community shine.

New Gears of War Video!!

Check this out, new levels, new enemies, and probably several other new things too. Now this is for the Games for Windows platform but who knows, maybe they will release some kickass expansion pack for the Xbox 360. I’m sure more news will follow next week during E3.

Make your own fireworks this 4th

EDIT: This artical was supposed to be published on Mon July 2, but because I was out of town I was unable to make sure that the auto-publish feature worked. So here you go. And hey! It’s still not to late to try…

K4rn4ge invites you to take the challenge and beat your old Geomety Wars high score this 4th of July.

“I thought it would be a cool idea
if we get a bunch of people
to participate and try their best
for a new high score. Also, it
doesn’t matter if you have 1 million
or 100 million, anyone can join
in on this special geometry wars event.”

If you wanna participate, you can post your before and after scores, right here, in this thread started by K4rn4ge on the Xbox.com forums. My high score is about 8.9 Million… Maybe I can finally get 10? But what about you? Can you beat your high score?

GVU Xbox 360 Wireless Gaming Receiver

This is part 5 of the 5 part series of reviews on the Xbox 360 accessories. Todays review is on the Microsoft Xbox 360 wireless gaming receiver. Thanks to those that leave comments and/or suggestions, good or bad, I take notice of all of them.

Two Worlds for the Xbox 360 Interview

Steve519 (Host and editor at XBL Radio) and Racingfreak (contributer to xblradio.com and podcaster at The Bit Cast) sit down with Jay Fitzloff (PR Manager for Two Worlds) and discuss the upcoming game, Two Worlds. We ask him everything that you would want to know as well as everything you wanted to know.

So sit back and enjoy the interview, its about 35 mins long but hopefully you will find out all you wanted to know about the game.

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GVU Xbox 360 Quick Charge Kit

This is part 4 of the 5 part series of reviews on the Xbox 360 accessories. Todays review is on the Microsoft Xbox 360 quick charge kit. Thanks to those that leave comments and/or suggestions, good or bad, I take notice of all of them.

Microsoft Expands Xbox 360 Warranty Coverage

REDMOND, Wash. — July 5, 2007 —Microsoft Corp. today announced that it will expand its global Xbox 360™ warranty coverage. Any Xbox 360 customer who experiences a general hardware failure indicated by three flashing red lights will now be covered by a three year warranty from date of purchase. All other existing Xbox 360 warranty policies remain in place.

As a result of what Microsoft views as an unacceptable number of repairs to Xbox 360 consoles, the company conducted extensive investigations into potential sources of general hardware failures. Having identified a number of factors which can cause general hardware failures indicated by three red flashing lights on the console, Microsoft has made improvements to the console and is enhancing its Xbox 360 warranty policy for existing and new customers.

Microsoft stands behind its products and is taking responsibility to repair or replace any Xbox 360 console that experiences the “three flashing red lights” error message within three years from time of purchase free of charge, including shipping costs. Microsoft will take a $1.05 billion to $1.15 billion pre-tax charge to earnings for the quarter ended June 30, 2007 for anticipated costs under its current and enhanced Xbox 360 policies.

“The majority of Xbox 360 owners are having a great experience with their console and have from day one. But, this problem has caused frustration for some of our customers and for that, we sincerely apologize,” said Robbie Bach, president of Microsoft’s Entertainment & Devices Division. “We value our community tremendously and look at this as an investment in our customer base. We look forward to great things to come.”

For any customer who has previously paid for repair expenses related to the three flashing lights error message on the Xbox 360 console, Microsoft will retroactively reimburse them.